Name
Do people in your country usually have middle names?
Is your given/family name a common one in your country?
Do any other people in your family have names with special meanings?
Does your name mean anything or have a special significance?
Would you like to change your name?
In your culture, do women change their names when they get married?
What are the most common names in your country/culture?

Study/work
What’s your subject?
Are you a student or Do you work?
Why did you choose it as your major?
Is your major difficult?
In what ways do you associate with your classmates in your major?
Which part of your subject do you think is most interesting?
What do you learn from your major?
What job will you have in the future? What do you want to do after graduation?
How to get the job you want?
What’s your job?
What are you responsible for?
How was your first working day/ school day?

Schedule/ daily routine
House/apartment/flat
Do you live in a house or an apartment?
What’s special about your flat?
What do you think is the most important thing in your room?
Will you recommend others to live in your flat, and why?
Do you want to change another house?
How long have you lived there?
Live alone or with others?
Have you ever been living alone for some time?

Surrounding?
What kind of community are you living in?
How is the traffic around your home?
Do you like the place you current live in?
Neighborhood
Do you know your neighbor?
Do you think it is important to have good relationship with ur neighbor?
How is your relationship with your neighbors?
How often do you meet them?
What kind of conflicts people may have with their neighbors?
Are your neighbors old or young?
Do you prefer the neighbor in your age or older than u?

Hometown
Where are you from?
Where do you live?
Would you say it’s a good place to grow up?
Where will you recommend to your friends in your city?
Transportations in your hometown
Where do you want to live, south or north of China?
What’s special about your hometown?
Do you like the city you current live in?
What do you like most about your hometown?
Do you like to live in a big city or a small town?
Do you think your hometown has bright future?
Do your family and you live here for a long time?
Do you like to live with your parents?

Weather/season
What type of weather do you like?
What type of weather do Chinese people usually like?
What do you often do in sunny days? Cold days?
How does weather affect you?
Does weather affect people’s work performance?
Which is your favorite season?
What is the most common weather in your country?
Do you pay attention to the weather forecast?
What do you think about weather report?
Do you think people’s activities will change in different seasons?

Sound and noise
Your favorite sound from nature and why?
The noise you hate the most?
The types of sounds that you consider as noise
Do you like quiet environment?
What kinds of sounds remind you about your childhood?
Time/watch
Do you often wear watch?
What do you think of "time"?
How do you feel when you are late?
Do you sometimes feel that time goes slowly?

Collection
Do you like collect things?
Why do you have such a collection?
Did you like collecting things when you were a child?
What will you collect when you’re rich in the future?
What do Chinese people like to collect?
What can people learn from their collections?

Food & Cooking
Do you like cooking?
Do you cook at home?
Did you learn cooking in your childhood?
Will you cook in the future?
Who cooks in your family?
Is it important for young people to know how to cook?

Dancing

Can you dance?

Do you like dancing?

Is dancing popular where you live?

What kind of dance do Chinese people like?

Fruit/vegetable
What kind of fruit/vegetables do you like? Why?
Where do you buy fresh fruit and vegetable?
Is it easy (convenient to) buy fruit and vegetables where you live?
Do you like to eat fruit(s) and vegetables?
How often do you eat fruit and vegetables?
Did you like to vegetables when you were a child?
What are the benefits of eating fresh fruit (or, fresh fruits and vegetables)?
How much fruit and vegetables do you think a person needs to eat (everyday) to stay healthy?

Fashion/shopping
Do you like fashion?
Do you like shopping?
How often do you go shopping
Do you prefer to go shopping with friends or alone?
What makes you interested in shopping?
Do you think shopping is a waste of time?
What kind of clothes do you like?
Who buy clothes for you?
What’s the difference between big shop and small shop?
When was the last time you went shopping?

Flowers
Do you like flowers?
Why do people like flower?
Do Chinese people grow flowers?
When was the last time you bought flowers/ gave flowers to others?
Why will Chinese people buy flowers? On what occasions do people give flowers to other people?
Do Chinese people grow flowers in gardens?
Do you like garden?
Do the old like flowers?
Are flowers popular in china?

Sports
What sport do you like?
Do your friends like sport?
Do you often do exercises at university?
Is there any sports equipment near your home?
How often do you do exercise?
Do you think it is necessary for children to do exercise?

Travelling by air

Do you like to take airplane?

How often do you travel by air?

What do you think the advantages and disadvantages of travelling by air? (compare with other means of transport)

What do you think the air travelling will be in the future?

Book/reading
Do you often read books?
What kinds of books do you usually read?
Did you read a lot when you were a child? If so, what were they?
Why don't you keep reading now?
Do you like reading?
Reading habit?
Where do you read books?
How long do you read per day?
Do you enjoy reading when you were a child? Now? Why?

Film
What kinds of film do you like?
Are these types of film popular in your country?
Do you prefer watch movies in cinema or at home?
How often do you watch film?

Driving
Do you have a driving license?
When is the appropriate age for getting a driving license?
Is driving skills important?
Do you (know how to) drive a car?
Do you think it’s important to get a driver’s license?

Language
What language do you speak?
What other languages can you speak?
Do you want to learn anther language?
How do you learn it (esp. English)?
Do you think learning English is difficult?
How do you improve your English?
Do you think learning languages is important?
Something helps you to learn another language.

TV program
Which/what kinds of television program do you like?
Do you like watching TV?
Which program makes you feel relaxed? Why?
Do you watch some foreign country programme? Why?
How much time do you spend watching television?
How do you feel about advertisements on TV?
What benefits can people get from watching ( foreign) TV programs?
Do you think watching TV can help students in their studies?

Part 2
people
a celebrity not from your country
An artist
a TV/radio program presenter
a family (member/ but not yours)
a person who has influenced you
an old person you admire
a teenager/ a friend in childhood you admire
a happy person
a person who you want to spend some time with/ is good at cooking/is good at his/ her job/ you ever helped
an intelligent person
a neighbour
a visitor/ a person you want to visit
a teacher (in your middle school)
Objects/ things
an advertisement
A performance
A work of art (sculpture/ painting/)
something you DIY/ handicraft
an exciting message (a special letter/a e-mail)
an old thing in your family
A book
A photograph
An article (from cell phone/ a magazine)
A thing you bought but seldom used
A childhood song/ game/ toy/ A book (you enjo as a child)
an old/well-known story in your culture
Special Meal/ picnic
A TV program you like/ didn’t like
Your ideal job/ vehicle/
A useful electronic equipment (except computer) in your home
A animal (domesticated/wild/ threaten)
A (science/ history) course you’d like to study/ you like in high school
A website
your favorite season
A (good/ interesting) law
A film /a new skill (a useful way to study a foreign language)
Places
A tourist attraction (river or lake that you’ve seen or heard about, a place of natural beauty/ with a lot of water)
A historic site
An outdoor place for sports
A garden
Your favourite part of a city/ your hometown
Modern building (shopping center/supermarket)
a library
a Hotel
A museum
a company
A country/ a city
A small shop
A restaurant
Events
A success/failure in your life
An importance/enjoyable stage of your life (an important advice you received)
An interesting lecture or speech
A (exciting/ healthy) physical activity/ sport
An impressive conversation
A party for someone/ a festival
A group activity you took part in at college
a public event
An unexpected journey
A case you caught in a traffic jam
A family event
A journey that didn’t go as well as planned
A admirable event that your friend did
A change you’d like to have in the future (of yourself/ hometown)
a study experience (a useful way to study a foreign language)

1.Some people believe that the charity organizations should give aid to those in greatest need，wherever they live. Some people believe that the charity organizations would better concentrate on helping people who live in own country instead. Discuss both views and give your own opinion.

2.In today’s world, it is private companies rather than government who pay for and carry out most on scientific research. To what extent do you think the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

3.The gap between the rich and the poor is becoming much wider, the rich richer, the poor even poorer. What problems can the situation cause and give the solutions.

4.Many people are moving to big cities. Why is that? To what extent do you think it is a good trend?

5.To what extent do you agree that societies benefit from international tourism and business?

6.Some people think pollution and damage of environment are resulted from a country developing and becoming richer, and this is hard to be avoided. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

7.Some people think that by paying taxes they have made enough contribution to their society, others think there are more responsibilities than paying taxes. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

8.Some people think that strong tradition can civilize a country and the government should subsidize musicians, artists, actors and drama companies. Do you agree or disagree with the opinion? What should the government do?

9.Now environmental problems are serious，ordinary people can do less to improve this issue，so governments and large companies should be responsible for reducing the damage .To what extent you agree or disagree.

10.More and more media attention paid for famous people who success in sports, cinema. Why do you think this thing? Do you think this is good thing?